Lire une revue médicale du 19e siècle

Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal 

Sally Frampton & Jennifer Wallis (Editors)

• Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (December 29, 2020)
• Language: : English
• Hardcover : 112 pages
• ISBN-13 : 978-0367643263

This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approached them as objects of study.

From debates about women doctors in lesser-known titles such as the Medical Mirror, to the formation of professional medical communities within French and Portuguese periodicals, the contributors to this volume highlight the multi-faceted nature of these publications as well as their uses to the historian. Medical periodicals – far from being the preserve of doctors and nurses – were also read by the general public. Thus, the contributions collected here will be of interest not only to the historian of medicine, but also to those interested in nineteenth-century periodical culture more broadly.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Media History.